As the Persian New Year -- Nowruz -- is celebrated world-wide, many Iranians come to Armenia for the holiday, where they can enjoy a more festive and less-restrictive time. Each year at this time Iranian performers from America come to Yerevan to put on shows for the visiting audiences.

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As Mashtots Park has become the flashpoint of citizen protest action, it has also become the site of nardi, chess and football games as protesters find ways to pass the time between demonstrations.

In an ancient tradition that reaches back at least . . . 10 years . . . on Spring Equinox Day, workers prepare Yerevan for Cafe Season!

Workers in Mashtots Park prepare for water pipes to be laid in the public area that has become a flash point of controversy between environmentalists and authorities due to the placement of commercial businesses taking over green space.

Good day for dogs and dog admirers under sunny skies, with Yerevan temps today: high+10C/50F low -2C/29F.

A clear spring night and the clear light of shining Mother Armenia above Yerevan.

Beloved composer Arno Babajanyan has a lap full of youngster enjoying the jazzman's statue near Swan Lake in Yerevan, where the mid-afternoon temperature was +9C/ 48F.

March looks a lot like February this week, as Armenia has been reminded that this is the “crazy” month, when Mother Nature waffles between seasons. Today’s temp: +10C/50F

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, sort of, was among celebrities welcoming guests to the opening of the 10th British Film Festival Sunday at Yerevan's Moscow Cinema. The festival will also travel to Vanadzor and Gyumri.

For weeks green activists have had daily presence in a Yerevan park opposing ongoing construction in what they insist is a public space.

About two dozen young people that make up the core of the group fighting for the conservation of the public park off Yerevan’s Mashtots Boulevard manage to attract more supporters from amongst ordinary citizens who happen to be passing by the venue. The young activists stage daily awareness events in the venue that has recently become a spearhead for Armenia’s environmental campaigns. March 3 saw an eco-forum there.